The travesty is families in St. Paul are not getting the kind of support they need.

The manner of conduct of this hearing. Totally unfair.

The travesty is Mr. Newell was supposed to testify a week ago in a Senate committee and he was denied his chance.

The declination statement with the reference to Magner was put in there even though Mr. Perez said he didn't want it in there.

What changed their mind? What event took place between November 2011 and the February 2012 letter?

I would say Mr. Perez got on the phone and started talking to the folks in St. Paul.

You have to have some idea. Because as the chairman pointed out, Investors Business Daily, USA Today, Huffington Post, Associated Press, now, look, I am in politics.

This gets back to where I was an hour and a half or two hours ago, the credibility of the Department of Homeland Security.

To now say that, oh, you know what, the guys who wear the uniform and law enforcement people across this Country aren't going to get as much training hours because oh, and blame it on sequester, and the timing of this news story to happen…

you have a credibility problem. Plain and simple.

Don't you order in a five-year kind of a ceiling contract approach?